How Not To Do Article Marketing or How To Get Your Account Banned

This is using someone else’s work, without their consent, and usually word for word. Sometimes it is a sentence or just the theme of the article. But most often it is the entire article. This is very hard for article directory owners to pick up on, so the thief often gets away with it. However authors will notify us of the situation and let us know that it is stolen so we can look into it. Today alone we removed over 600 plagiarized articles that were submitted by one person during the last 2 months.

Most article directories have a page for Popular Articles like this one. This is created based on the number of times a page is loaded. Some malicious users will artificially increase this number through various tactics to get their articles on the popular articles page. How do you check – simple – use another analytics software. Sure there will be some differences due to what is recorded (robots or humans) but if the site says it has had 8000 hits and the analytics says 10 – you know that there is something going on. We have removed several authors for this as well.

While some directory owners have a script that will catch this, others do not.  More often than not it is caught by someone seeing it and reporting it to the editor.  Most authors who include more links than allowed in a resource box do so intentionally and on all of their articles.

Links in the body of the article are easily caught with a simple script or query.  However many are done tastefully others – not so much.  If these are allowed by the directory to which you are submitting – feel free – but know that most directory owners do not allow links in the body of the article.  Try to use no more than 1 link per 200 words of content in the body of the article if allowed at all.  We remove articles all the time because of links in the body of the article.  Often without notice to the author.  If you violate a sites Terms and Conditions – do not expect second chances.

We remove all articles that are deemed to be of insignificant content and of little value.  For example a small 70 word sales pitch will be declined instantly.  Isnare recently changed their policy to a 500 word minimum.  Other sites have increased it to requiring 400 or 500 or even more.  Long story short – write some useful content that is longer than a sales pitch so that the reader can get a feel for what you know.

All article directories have the rules about what they will accept and what they won’t.  Most however do not allow articles promoting online pharmacies, casinos, drug use, and other illegal activities.  Adult content is also usually not allowed.  You should check the policy of each site before submitting.  Remember it is easy for a site owner to search for a word or words across an entire site for either words that are inappropriate or links that are inappropriate.  Some sites will remove all of the articles from an author if they find some of them are inappropriate.